{"id":5534,"date":"2025-11-08T16:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5534"},"modified":"2025-11-08T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T16:51:15","slug":"the-book-our-mothers-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5534","title":{"rendered":"The Book Our Mothers Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br><em><strong>We search the world for truth. We cull<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>The good, the true, the beautiful,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>From graven stone and written scroll,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>And all old flower fields of the soul;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>And, weary seekers of the best,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>We come back laden from our quest,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>To find that all the sages said<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em><strong>Is in the Book our mothers read.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br><strong>\u2014John Greenleaf Whittier<\/strong><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We search the world for truth. We cull The good, the true, the beautiful, From graven stone and written scroll, And all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=5534\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Book Our Mothers Read<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5534\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}